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AMERICAN HISTOEY. 



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EDWARD D. NEILL 



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Vom the New-England Histokical and Genealogical Register for October, 1876. 




BOSTON: 

DAVID CLAPP & SON, PRINTERS. 

1876. 



NOTES ON AMERICAN HISTORY. 



No. 1. Capt. Thomas Jones, of "May Flower." 

N. E.H. & G.Reg., Vi 

No. 2. Richard Feobisher, Ship-builder. 



No. 3. Chancellor West on Colored Suffrage. 



£_^"No. 4. George Ruggle, writer on Virginia. 



Ibid, 



Ibid, Vol 



Ibid, 



No. 5. Marylander's Legacy to Glasgow University. 

Ibid, 

No. 6. Governor Dinwiddie. 
No. 7. Berkeley's Speech. 



Jbid, 



Ibid, Vol 

No. 8. Washington's Letter concerning John Parke 

Ibid, 



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NOTES ON AMERICAN HISTORY. 



No. IX. 
English Maids for Virginia Planters. 

AMONG the most important measures, inaugurated after Sir 
. Edwin Sandys became the presiding officer of the London 
Company, was the transportation of virtuous young women to 
Virginia. 

On the 3d of November, O. S., 1619, Sandys at the usual weekly 
meeting of the Company suggested "that a fit hundred might be 
sent of women, maids young and uncorrupt to make wives to the 
inhabitants." 

At the regular quarterly meeting held on Wednesday the 17th of 
the same month he again alluded to the subject. "He understood 
that the people thither transported, though seated there in their 
persons for some four years, are not settled in their minds to 
make it their place of rest and continuance ; but having gotten 
some wealth to return again to England. For the remedying of 
that mischief and of the establishing a perpetuity of the plantation 
he advised to send them over one hundred young maids to become 
wives, that wives, children and families might make them less 
movable, and settle them together with their posterity in that soil." 

First Shipment of Maids. 

The first shipment to the number of ninety was made by the 
"Jonathan" and "London Merchant," vessels which arrived in 
May, 1620, at Jamestown. 

In a circular of the London Company dated July 18, 1620, they 
declare their intention to send more young women like " the ninety 
which have been lately sent." 

Shipment per " Marmaduke." 

In August, 1621, the Marmaduke left the Thames for Virginia 
with a letter to the Governor, from which we extract the following : 

"We send you in this ship one widow and eleven maids for wives 
for the people in Virginia." 

A choice Lot. 
"There hath been especial care had in the choice of them for there 
hath not any one of them been received but upon good commenda- 
tions, as by a note herewith sent you may perceive." 



To be cared for. 
"We pray you all therefore in general to take them into your care, 
and most especially we recommend them to you Mr. Pountes, that 
at their first landing they may be housed, lodged, and provided for 
of diet till they be married, for such was the haste of sending them 
away, we had no means to put provisions aboard, which defect shall 
be supplied by the Magazine ship. In case they cannot be presently 
married, we desire they may be put to several householders that 
have wives, till they can be provided of husbands." 

More to come. 
"There are near fifty more which are shortly to come, sent by 
the Earl of Southampton, and certain worthy gentlemen, who taking 
into their consideration, that the Plantation can never flourish till 
families be planted, and the respect of wives and children fix the 
people in the soil, therefore have given this fair beginning." 

Price of a Wife. 
"For the reimbursing of whose charges, it is ordered that every 
man who marries one of them gives 1201b weight of best leaf 
tobacco, and in case any of them die, that proportion must be 
advanced to make it up, upon those who survive." 

Marriage to be Free. 
"We pray you to be fathers to them in this business, not enforcing 
them to marry against their wills ; neither send we them to be 
servants but in case of extremities, for we would have their condition 
as much better as multitudes may be allured thereby to come unto 
you. And you may assure such men as marry these women, that 
the first servants sent over by the Company shall be consigned to 
them, it being our intent to preserve families and proper married 
men, before single persons." 

The Marmaduke Maids Married. 
With the help of an old Virginia muster roll, we have found out 
that four of the twelve that came in the Murmaduke were married, 
and alive in 1624. 



Maiden. 


Husband. 


His arrival. 


Adria married 


Tho's Harris 


Ship Prosperous, May, 1610 


Anna " 


Tho's Doughty 


" Marigold, 1619 


Katharine " 


Rob't Fisher 


" Elizabeth, 1611 


Ann 


Nieh. Bayly 


" Jonathan, 1620 



Consignment by the " Warwick " and " Tiger." 
On Sept. 11, 1621, the London Company again write : 
"By this ship [Warwick] and pinnace called the Tiger we also 
send as many maids and young women as will make up the number 
of fifty, with those twelve formerly sent in the Marmaduke, which 
we hope shall be received with the same Christian piety and charity 
as they were sent from hence." 



Price of a Wife raised. 
"The providing for them at their first landing and disposing of 
them in marriage we leave to your care and wisdom to take that 
order as may most conduce to their good and the satisfaction of the 
Adventurers for the charges disbursed in setting them forth, which 
coming to £12 and upwards, they require 1501bs of the best leaf 
tobacco for each of them. This increase of thirty pounds weight 
since those sent in the Marmaduke they have resolved to make, 
finding the great shrinkage and other losses upon the tobacco from 
Virginia will not bear less." 

Extraordinary Care in Selection. 
" We have used extraordinary care and diligence in the choice of 
them, and have received none of whom we have not had good testi- 
mony of their honest life and carriage, which together with their 
names, we send enclosed for the satisfaction of such as shall marry 
them." 

Marriage of " Warwick " Maids. 
The following maids were living as wives in 1624, who came in 
the Warwick. 



Maiden. 


Husband. 




■His arrival 




Margaret married 


Hezekiah Raughtoii 


in 


Bona Nova. 


1620 


Sarah " 


Edward Fisher 


" 


Jonathan, 


•' 


Ann " 


John Stoaks 








Ellen 


Michal Batt 


it 


Hercules, 


1610 


Elizabeth " 


Tho's Gates 


ti 


Swan , 


1609 


Bridget 


John Wilkias 


" 


Marigold, 


161S 


Ann " 


John Jackson 
" Tiger" Maids. 


t. 


Warwick. 




ie following who came in the Tiger were 


alive 


in 1624. 




Maid. 


Husband. 




His arrival 




Joan married 


Humphrey Kent 


in 


" George," 


1619 


Joan " 


Tho's Palmer 


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At a quarterly meeting of the London Company on Nov. 21, 
1621, it was mentioned that care had been taken to provide the 
planters in Virginia with "young, handsome and honestly educated 
maids," whereof sixty were already sent. 



No. X. 

The Mayflower People. 

The action of the passengers of the Mayflower in forming a 

social compact before landing at Plymouth Eock seems to have been 

in strict accordance with the policy of the London Company under 

whose patent the ship sailed. 

On June 9, 1619, O. S., John Whincop's patent was duly sealed 
by the Company, but this which had cost the Puritans so much 
labor and money was not used. Several months after, the Leyden 



6 

people became interested in a new project. On Feb. 2, 1619—20, 
at a meeting at the house of Sir Edwin Sandys in Aldersgate, he 
stated to the Company that a grant had been made to John Peirce 
and his associates. At the same quarterly meeting it was expressly 
ordered that leaders of particular plantations, associating unto them 
divers of the gravest and discreetest of their companies, shall have 
liberty to make orders, ordinances, and constitutions for the better 
ordering and directing of their business and servants, provided they 
be not repugnant to the Laws of England. 

Five hundred pounds sterling had been presented to the Company 
for the education of Indian children, and it had been proposed by 
Sir John Wolstenholme, that John Peirce and his associates might 
have the training of some of these children, but on the 16th of 
February a Committee reported "that for divers reasons they think 
it inconvenient. First, because after their arrival they will be long 
in settling themselves : As also, that the Indians are not acquainted 
with them, and so they may stay four or five years before they have 
account that any good is done." 

Under the Peirce patent the Mayflower sailed in September, 1620. 
She did not return to England until May, 1621. The next month 
John Peirce and associates took out a new patent from the "Council 
of New England." In view of this action on July 16th, at a meet- 
ing of the London Company, "It was moved seeing that Mr. John 
Peirce had taken a patent of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, and thereupon 
seated his company within the limits of the Northern Plantations as 
by some was supposed, whereby he seemed to relinquish the benefit 
of the patent he took of this Company, that therefore the said 
patent might be called in, unless it might appear he would begin to 
plant within the limits of the Southern Colony." 

From this minute it would seem as if Peirce had some understand- 
ing with Gorges, in view of the profits from fishing, of settling the 
Leyden people beyond the confines of the territory of the London 
Company, although he did not until June 1, 1621, receive a patent 
from the "Council of New England." 

No. XI. 
Transportation of homeless London Children. 

Sir George Bowles or Bolles, the Lord Mayor of London, and 
the Aldermen thereof in 1617, " fearing lest the overflowing multitude 
of inhabitants should, like too much blood, infect the whole city with 
plague and poverty," devised as a remedy, the transportation to 
Virginia of their overflowing multitude, and in 1618-19 one hundred 
children were sent to Virginia. 

The next year, 1619, the Mayor Sir William Cockaine resolved 
to ease the city of many that were ready to starve, and conferred 
with the Virginia Company. The following memorial from the 
Company was presented to the Mayor and Aldermen. 



"The Treasurer and Company of Virginia assembled in their great 
and general Court, the 17th of November, 1619, have taken into 
consideration, the continual great forwardness of this honourable 
City, in advancing the plantation of Virginia, and particularly in 
furnishing one hundred children this last year, which by the good- 
ness of God have safely arrived (save such as died on the way) and 
are Avell pleased we doubt not, for this benefit, for which your 
bountiful assistance we in the name of the whole Plantation, do 
yield unto you deserved thanks. 

"And forasmuch as we have resolved to send this next spring very 
large supplies for the strength and increasing of the Colony styled 
by the name of the London Colony, and find that the sending of 
these children to be apprenticed hath been very grateful to the 
people, we pray your Lordship and the rest, to renew the like favours 
and furnish us again with one hundred more for the next spring. 

"Our desire is, that we may have them of twelve years old and 
upward, with allowance of £3 apiece for their transportation, and 
40s. apiece for their apparel as was formerly granted. They shall 
be apprenticed, the boys till they come to 21 years of age ; the girls 
till like age, or till they be married. * * * And so we leave this 
motion to your honourable and grave consideration." 

The City co-operated in procuring the second company of children, 
but some were unwilling to leave London, as the following letter of 
Sir Edwin Sandys, the presiding officer of the Company, written in 
January, 1620, N. S., to Sir Robert Naunton, one of the King's 
Secretaries, indicates. 

"The City of London have appointed one hundred children from 
the superfluous multitude to be transported to Virginia, there to be 
bound apprentices upon very beneficial conditions. They have also 
granted £500 for their passage and outfit. Some of the ill-disposed, 
who under severe masters in Virginia may be brought to goodness, 
and of whom the City is especially desirous to be disburdened, 
declare their unwillingness to go. The City wanting authority to 
deliver, and the Virginia Company to transport these children against 
their will, desire higher authority to get over the difficulty." 

The necessary authority was granted, and the second company of 
children duly shipped. 

In April, 1622, it was proposed to send a third company, but no 
data can be found to show that they sailed. 

No. XII. 

Ships arriving at Jamestown, from the Settlement of 

Virginia until the Revocation of Charter of 

London Company. 

It must always be regretted that the London Company did not 
keep a proper ship and passenger register. The good Nicholas 



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Ferrar, Dep. Gov. of the Company, on Oct. 23, 1622, alluded to 
the errors of management in the transportation of persons and 
goods. He alluded to ships now going from London and other 
parts, and that "there was no note or register kept of the names of 
persons transported whereby himself and other officers were not able 
to give any satisfaction to the persons that- did daily and hourly 
enquire after their friends gone to Virginia." 

The following list of vessels, made up from various sources, 
although not complete, approaches to accuracy, and is submitted 
for correction. 

Ships which arrived at Jamestown. 

1607—1624. 

Remarks. 
Capt. Chris. Newport, 71 passengers 
" Bart. Gosnold, 52 
" John Ratcliffe, 20 
" Newport, 50 colonists 
" Nelson, 70 
" Newport, 60 " 
" Robt Tindal, Factor Sam. Argall 
" Ratcliffe, Gates & Somers Fleet 
11 Martin, Nelson Master 
" Archer, Adams " 
" Martin, Pett " 

' ' Moore 

" Davies, Built-in 1607 at Sagadahoc 
Built at Bermudas, and brought 
Gates and Somers with 100 colonists 
Lord Delaware's fleet 



Brought 12 men, 1 woman, 2 or 3 horses 

' ' 30 colonists 
Dale's fleet 



Year 


. Mo. 


Ship. 




1607 


April 


Susan Constant 1 100 Tons 


tt 


" 


God Speed 40 ' 


' 


14 


tt 


Discovery 20 ' 


c 


1607- 


8 Jan'y 


John and Francis 8 




1008 


April 


Phoenix 3 




tt 


Oct. 


Mary Margaret 




1609 


July 


Diseovery 4 




l I 


Aug. 


Diamond 




U 

it 


( i 


Falcon 
Blessing 




" 


(I 


Unity 




tt 


tt 


Swallow 5 
Virginia 6 




1610 


May 


Deliverance 70 tons 7 


} 


11 


" 


Patience 30 


*t 
a 


June 

1C 


Delaware 

Blessing 

Hercules 




a 


Oct. 


Dainty 




1611 


April 


Hercules 




It 
it 


May 
tt 


Elizabeth 
Mary and James 
Prosperous 




a 


Aug. 


Star 8 




tt 


tt 


Swan 




it 

a 


tt 
tt 


Trial 

Three Carvills 





Gates 



1 The Susan Constant, Capt. Newport, left Jamestown for England with mineral and 
forest specimens on 22 June, 1607, and arrived in the Thames in less than five weeks. 

2 Loaded with iron ore, sassafras, cedar posts, and walnut wood, sailed from Jamestown 
10th of April, and on 20th of May reached England. The iron ore seems to have been 
smelted, and 17 tons sold to East India Co. at £4 per ton. 

3 Capt. Nelson returned to England in July, 1608. 

4 Discovery brought no passengers nor supplies, but was intended for private trade. 

" Twenty-eight or thirty were sent in ship Swallow to trade for corn with the Indians. 
They stole away with what was the best ship, and some became pirates. Others returned 
to England and told the tragical story of a man at Jamestown so pinched with hunger as to 
eat his de;id wife. — See Purchas, vol. iv. p. 1757. 

6 This vessel was built at Sagadnhoc by the Popham colonists in 1607. Disheartened by 
Popham's death they set sail for England in a ship from b.'xeter, "and in the new pynnace 
the Virginia."— Bakluyt Pub., vol. vi. p. 180 

7 The Deliverance was built bj r Richard Frobisher. — SeeNew-Eng. Hist, and Gen. Reg., 
vol. xxviii. p. 317, for a sketch of this shipwright. 

s In the autumn of 1611 the Star, of 300 tons, sailed from Jamestown for England with 
forty fair and large pines for masts. — Hakluyt Pub., vol. vi. p. 130. 



1612 



1613 
1614 
1615 



Sept. 



1616 Oct. 

1617 May 

1618 April 



" Aug. 

1619 March 

" April 
ii it 

" May 



June 

Aug. 

Nov. 



John and Francis 

Sarah 

Treasurer 

Elizabeth 
it 

John and Francis 

Treasurer 

Susan 

George 1 

Pinnace 
George 
Diana 
Sampson 

Neptune 

Treasurer 

Wm. and ThomaB 2 

Eleanor 

Gift 

George 

Duty 

Prosperous 

Marigold 

Edwin 

Trial 

Privateer 3 
Bona Nova 4 



A small ship 
ii it it 

Capt. Argall, 50 men 
Brought thirteen persons 
Second trip 

Brought twenty persons 
ii ti it 

Came in October laden with supplies 
Gov. Argall and Rev. Mr. Keith, pas- 
sengers 
Owned by Capt. Martin 



Lord Delaware died on the voyage ; 

among the passengers Wm. Ferrar 

who settled Ferrar's Island 
Capt. Elfred, Gov. Argall part owner. 
Probably the vessel in which Blackwell 

and other puritans sailed 
Swift pinnace in which Argall secretly 

escaped 
Gov. Yeardley passenger. 14 persons died 

on the voyage ' 



Commissioned by Duke of Savoy, consort 
of Treasurer, brought "20 negars " 

Of 200 tons. Brought Rev. Jonas Stock- 
ton, son and 120 colonists 



1 In April when the George arrived the number of men, women and children in Virginia 
was about 400, " and but one plough was going in all the country."— Sir Edwin Sandys to 
Virginia Company. 

2 The "William and Thomas " was without doubt the vessel in which the first body of 
Puritans embarked under Blackwell, formerly an Elder in the Amsterdam Church. 

In Bradford's History, Cushman the Agent of the Leydeu people writes under date of 
London, May 8, 1619, ns follows: "Captain Argol is come home this week, * * * cameaway 
before Sir Geo. Yeardley came there. * * * He saith Mr. Blackwell's ship came not there till 
March, but going towards winter they had north-west winds which carried them to the south- 
ward beyond their course. And the master of the ship and some six of the mariners 
dying, it seemed they could not find the Bay till after long seeking and beating about. 
Mr. Blackwell is dead, and Mr. Maggner the captain; yea, there aie dead he saith 130 
persons one and other in that ship ; it is said there were in all 180 persons in the ship, 
so as they were packed together like herrings. They had amongst them the flux, and 
also the want of fresh water, so as it is here rather wondered at that so many are alive, 
than that so many are dead. The merchants here say it was Mr. Blackwell's fault to pack 
so many in the ship." 

3 The Treasurer with a commission as privateer from the Duke of Savoy against the 
Spaniards left Virginia on a cruise to the West Indies, where she consorted with the Flemish 
ship, and captured a Spanish vessel with some negroes. The Flemish ship brought twenty 
negroes to Virginia in August, 1619, the first introduced. 

"On February 16, 1623-4, there had been but a small increase. 
At Fleur Dieu Hundred 11 negroes 



James City 
" James Island 
" Plantation opposite 
" Warasquoyak 
" Elizabeth. City 



3 
1 
1 
4 
1 

21 



4 The Bona Nova with the seven ships that follow in the list brought out 871 persons. 
Hist. Virginia Co, of London, p. 181. 



10 



1620 



1621 



May 


Duty 


it 


Jonathan 1 


.1 


Trial 




Falcon 




London Merchant 
Swan 


Nov. 


Francis Bona Ventura 2 


Jan'y 


Supply 

Abigail 

Adam 

Margaret and John 

Bona Nova 3 

Charles 


Oct. 


George 




Eleanor 
Sea Flower 
Concord 
Duty 


Nov. 


Marmaduke 




Flying Llart 4 


Dec. 


Temperance 




Warwick 




Tiger 5 



Of 70 tons, Capt. Damyron, brought 50 

Bridewell vagabonds 
Of 350 tons. Brought maids for planters' 

wives 
Of 200 tons, Capt. Edmonds, 60 kine, 40 

persons 
Of 150 tons, Capt. Jones, 4 mares, 52 

kine, 36 persons 
Of 300 tons, Capt. Shaw, 200 persons 
" 100 " brought 71 persons 
" 240 " " 151 " Rev. David 
Sandis passengers 



Gov. Wyatt, Rev. Haut Wyatt, Dr. Pott, 
George Sandys, poet, passengers 



Rev. W. Bennett, passenger 



Capt. John Dennis, brought for wives, 1 
widow and 1 1 maids 

Capt. Cornelius Johnson, a Dutchman, 
brought cattle of Daniel Gookin from 
Ireland 

This ship and the Tiger brought 38 maids 

for wives 
Captured by Turks and released 

1 The Jonitban was a supply ship, and was among the first to bring maids for wives. 
On Nov. 3, 1619, Sir Edwin Sandvs at a meeting of Virginia Company " wished that a fit 
hundred might be sent of women, maids young and uncorrupt to make wives to the 
inhabitants." The girls were sent from time to time, but not in one ship. 

2 On Dee. 16, 1620 Sir Edwin Sandvs reported to the Virginia Company "that they had 
received certificate of the safe arrival of all their ships sent ihe last Spring, as namely, the 
Francis Bona Ventura with all save one, the Trial and Falcon with all their passengers, 
the London Merchant with all theirs, the Duly with all save one. And so likewise the 
Swan of Barnstable. But the Jonathan, in her tedious passage, had lost sixteen ot two 
hundred. So by this last supply they had landed in Virginia, near the number ot 800 persons, 
for which great blessing, he rendered unto the Almighty all possible thanks. 

3 The ships sent out by the London Company in 1621 were nine in number: the George, 
Sea Flower, Bona Nova, Concord, Marmaduke, Warwick, Tiger, etc. Upon the return of 
the " George" in 1622, the Company invited the Rev. Patrick Copland to preach a 1, hanks- 
giving Sermon in view ot the safe arrival of all their ships at Jamestown. Upon the 18th 
of April, Copland in accordance with the request preached at Bow Church. Alluding to 
the vessels he uses these words : " The fittest season of the year tor a speedy passage being 
now far better known than before, and by that means, the passage itself made almost in so 
many weeks as formerly it was wont to be made in months, which I conceive to be, through 
the blessing of God, the main cause of the safe arrival of your last fleet ot nine sail ot 
ships that not one (but one, in whose room there was another borne) of eighty hundred 
which were transported out of England and Ireland should miscarry by the way. 

* The Flying Hart brought Daniel Gookin of Ireland, with fifty men of his own, thirty 
other passengers, and a number of cattle. The London Company writing to the authorities 
of Virginia under date of Aug. 12, 1621, allude to Gookin. They say : " Let him have very 
good tobacco lor his cows now at his first voyage, for if he make a good return, it may be the 
occasion of a trade with you from those parts, whereby you may be abundantly supplied, 
not onlv with cattle, but with most of those commodities you want at better and easier 
rate." Clarke seems to have been the pilot of the ship. 

5 The Tiger was captured by the Turks and released. Copland in his sermon alludes to 
it in these quaint words : „. . . . „ t , 

" When God brought some of the ships of yonr former fleets to Virginia in safety, here 
God's providence was seen and felt privately by some ; and this was a deliverance written 
as it were on quarto, on a lesser paper and letter. . 

" But now, when God brought all of your nine ships, and all your people in them, in 



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1622 


April 


Bona Nova 1 


It 


■' 


Discovery 2 


11 

11 


July 


Charity 

God's Gift 

Darling 

Furtherance 


It 




Abigail 


It 




Southampton 


1( 




James 


1623 


April 


Providence 3 


(i 




Margaret and John 


t< 




Sea Flower 


11 


July 


Samuel 


t( 




True Love 


ii 


Aug. 


Ann 


it 


Oct. 


George 


1624 




Prosperous 
Jacob 
Susan 
Due Keturn 



200 Tons. Capt. John Hudleston 
Capt. Thos. Jones 
Came by way of Plymouth in New 
England 



Nathaniel Basse, Passenger 
Catherine, wife of Rev. W . Bennett, 
Passenger 

Rev. Greville Pooley, Passenger 
Capt. Clarke, chartered by Daniel 
Gookin 



Capt. Wm. Peirce 



safety and health to Virginia, yea, and that ship Tiger of yours, which had fallen into the 
hand's of the Turkish men-of-war, through tempests and contrary winds she not being able 
to hear sail, and by that means driven out of her course, some hundreds of miles, * * * * 
***** when this your Tiger had fallen into the hands of those merciless Turks who 
had taken from them most of their victuals, and all of their serviceable sails, tackling and 
anchors, and had not left them so much as an hour-glass, or compass to steer their course, 
thereby utterly disabling them from go ; ng from them ; when I say God had ransomed her 
out of their hands, by another sail which they espied, and brought her likewise safely to 
Virginia, with all her people, two English hovs only excepted, for which the Turks gave 
them two others, a French youth and an Irish, was not here the presence of God printed 
as it were in foho, on royal crown papc, and capital letters." 

1 Capt. Hiidlestone arrived at Jamestown sixteen days after the first great massacre of 
the whites by Indians. In June, 1622, he was fishing off the coast of Maine, and sent a boat 
to the Puritans of Plymouth Rock with a letter containing the sad news. He said, " I will 
so far inform you that myself with many good friends in the Southern Colony of Virginia 
have received such a blow, that 400 persons large will not make good our losses."— See 
Bradford. 

2 For Sketch of Capt. Jones, see vol. xxviii. p. 314. 

3 Clarke had been captured by the Spaniards in 1612. On June 20, 1620, Cushman 
writing to his pastor Robinson at Leyden said, " We have hired another pilot here, one Mr. 
Clarke who went last year to Virginia with a ship of kine." 

On Feb. 13, 1621-22, the Presiding Officer of the London Company acquainted them 
"that one Mr. John Clarke being taken from Virginia long since by a Spanish ship that 
came to disarm that plantation, forasmuch as he hath since that time done the Company 
good service in many voyages to Virginia and of late went into Ireland for the transporta- 
tion of cattle to Virginia, he was an humble suitor that he might be admitted a free brother 
of the Company." 

Soon after he arrived in the " Providence " he died. 






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